‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’

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May 29, 2014

Deutsche Telekom (DT) activists in several German cities rallied last week to show support for their partners at T-Mobile locations in the U.S. who are pushing hard for CWA representation. In addition, a delegation of union members from Brüehl, Germany, joined their colleagues in Springfield, Mo. The activists are all members of ver.di, the German union representing 2 million workers, including workers at DT and T-Mobile. ver.di, working with CWA, is determined to support T-Mobile US workers in their bid for union representation.

Deutsche Telekom (DT) activists in several German cities rallied last week to show support for their partners at T-Mobile locations in the U.S. who are pushing hard for CWA representation.

In Brüehl, Germany, ver.di activists and T-Mobile workers tell their U.S. counterparts, "you'll never walk alone."

In addition, a delegation of union members from Brüehl, Germany, joined their colleagues in Springfield, Mo. The activists are all members of ver.di, the German union representing 2 million workers, including workers at DT and T-Mobile. ver.di, working with CWA, is determined to support T-Mobile US workers in their bid for union representation.

TU members from the U.S. and Brüehl, Germany, gather outside T-Mobile's Springfield, Mo., call center, to show their support for a union voice.

On May 20-21, ver.di activists at worker meetings in Augsburg and Nürnberg, Bavaria, stood up for the two T-Mobile US workers in Albuquerque who were fired because of their union support. Activists wore t-shirts showing the faces of Amber Diaz and Josue Urrutia below the headline that screamed: "Fired for Organizing a Union at T-Mobile." Activists also handed out leaflets and circulated a petition calling on DT and T-Mobile management to keep "fingers off our union activists." More than 300 signatures were collected in just a few minutes.

T-Mobile activists from Brühl rallied with T-Mobile US call center workers in Springfield, Mo., while back in Brühl, workers collected signatures for a solidarity pledge and told the T-Mobile US workers, "you'll never walk alone."